The study is a unique experiment designed to separate out and analyse the different effects of soil drought and air dryness in a natural fores…
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At 615 metres above sea level, and surrounded by towering Alpine mountains in the Rhone river valley, the forest is one of the hottest and dri…
In the Pfynwald, as in other dry Alpine valleys, Scots pines are dying out
In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has on their ability…
Cultivated peatlands account for some five percent of greenhouse gas emissions
Irish turf dries in a field before being used as a traditional way of heating Irish homes in Carragh, west of Dublin
Peatlands, such as this area in southern Dorset in England, contain comparable amounts of carbon to rainforests
Mapping more accurately than ever Ireland's peatlands, which are vital as carbon sinks but whose boundaries can be hard to determine, could he…
A combine harvest in Lincolnshire, eastern England, as Britain suffers its driest spring in over a century
A nearly dry pond near Oud-Heverlee in Belgium